Motivational Quotes

Action

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Action

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

10.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

11.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

13.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

14.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

15.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

16.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

18.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

19.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

20.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

21.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

22.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

23.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

24.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

25.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

27.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

28.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

29.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

30.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

31.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

32.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

33.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

34.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

35.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

36.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

37.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

38.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

40.

Do it now. Then it's done.

41.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

42.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

43.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

44.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

45.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

46.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

47.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

48.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

49.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

50.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee